SON OF THE 7TH EARL OF GRANARD
KILLED AT MONS R.I.P.
OF YOUR CHARITY
PRAY FOR HIS SOUL

CAPTAIN FERGUS GEORGE ARTHUR FORBES

ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT

23RD AUGUST 1914 AGE 32

BURIED: ST SYMPHORIEN MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM


Captain Forbes was killed on the first day of the Battle of Mons, Britain's first engagement of the war. The Earldom of Granard is an Irish peerage but relatively unusually the family were Roman Catholic as Captain Forbe's inscription indicates.

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